Senior Development Chef

Focus Management Consultants; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food business is seeking a talented Senior Development Chef to join their dynamic team. In this exciting site-based role, you will create innovative recipes and ensure the highest quality products, all while working in excellent facilities alongside a friendly team. They value your culinary skills, enthusiasm, and dedication to delicious food.

Benefits

Great benefits

Career progression opportunities

Friendly company culture

Qualifications

• Highly skilled Chef with experience in top quality restaurants.
• Experience in food manufacturing, food service, or retail as a Development Chef.
• Enthusiasm and interest in all aspects of food.

Responsibilities

• Create new recipes across different product categories and cuisines.
• Support new product launches ensuring taste and quality.
• Collaborate with suppliers and conduct taste panels.

Skills

Culinary Skills

Recipe Development

Product Benchmarking

Innovation in Food

Job description

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Opportunities like this Senior Development Chef role do not come around often…

There are very few Development Chef positions that offer the variety you’ll get here.

As Senior Development Chef, you’ll be working in a talented team of culinary professionals, all passionate about creating delicious, high-quality products.

Day to day, you’ll be in the development kitchen, creating new recipes across different product categories, cuisines, and price points. You’ll work closely with colleagues across other business areas to support new product launches, ensuring taste and quality are maintained through the process. You’ll work with suppliers, ensuring they are well-briefed and delivering products that meet consumer and company requirements. You’ll be involved in taste panels, product benchmarking, and innovation days.

This is a site-based role working Mon-Fri days in a fantastic development centre with superb facilities. You’ll be joining a highly regarded food business that’s recognised for looking after its team and for doing excellent work in the local community. People tend to stay here as they are well-rewarded with great benefits and career progression opportunities alongside enjoying the company culture – people are genuinely friendly here and love what they do.

About you…

You’ll need to be a highly skilled Chef with a broad repertoire to succeed here. You’re likely to have trained and cut your teeth in top quality restaurants before making the move into Product Development. Your experience as a Development Chef could be in food manufacturing, food service, or retail. In addition, having huge enthusiasm, energy, and interest in all aspects of food is what they are looking for.